Sometime in May, I got a text message from Tim Pulliam, co-founder at Keen Technical Solutions. It said, “You gotta do the ride.”I had no idea what he was talking about. What he meant was Split the Mitt. Through a series of texts, calls, and emails, he explained the ride that Bill Couzens and Tom Petzold

Photo by Srikanta H. U "President Trump this week named a former Dow Chemical Company executive who worked in the company's pesticide division to be chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the third major hire of a Dow alumnus in his administration. Trump on Monday announced his intention

Photo by Kelli DougalWhat a shameful day in Washington, DC. Unfortunately as members of Congress were flexing their vocabularies with fervor about abstractions, real matters are ignored. Matters such as fighting cancer. Our legislative branch was used and abused yesterday, and honestly put off the real work we have to accomplish. We need more than the

Photo courtesy of Rich Beauchesne/Seacoast OnlineIt is with great pleasure that I announce the Governor has signed Senate Bill 309 today. This bill is a significant step forward to protect public health in towns like Merrimack, Amherst, Litchfield, Portsmouth, Greenland, Hampton, North Hampton, and Rye.This bill is similar to my bill HB485, which I submitted during

Bill Couzens PhotoIt’s important not to muddy clinical and health conversations with the tinge of politics. As someone who produces interventional programming on prevention, including a collaborative medical program for health care providers including nurses, physicians, and public health professionals, I understand the importance of keeping evidence-based health care clean from political bias. My role as

Cutting Through Scott Pruitt’s Deadly Grifter Distractions — What You Really Need to Know about PruittScott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is a staple of news coverage these days. It seems every week a new scandal about his questionable use of government resources hits the headlines: having staffers pursue a Chick-Fil-A franchise for his wife,

Annie Spratt PhotoI met someone today who provided me with an education about something I should have learned about in medical school but didn’t. She is a woman born in the 1970’s in Michigan. Her grandparents were farmers in the thumb area in Michigan and suffered exposure to polybrominated biphenyl or PBB. PBB was a toxic

José Martín Ramírez CFor the last 15 years, I have raised money for Next Generation Choices Foundation, otherwise known as Less Cancer, a public charity 501c3 created on behalf of, and for, the benefit of the public. I felt an urgency to do more than call attention to what was flawed, and instead have devoted these

During hearings for a bill in the New Hampshire legislature, Christine Jameson from Hampton, New Hampshire gave heartbreaking testimony. She recounted that her 33-year-old firefighter husband Kyle died from what doctors say is a work-related cancer, T-Cell prolymphocytic leukemia. He also left behind a 2.5-year-old child.Unfortunately, the Jamesons’ story is not uncommon. For several years,